ACCF’s performance improvement education follows the American Medical Association PI-CME three stage process, which begins with data review and self-assessment, followed by developing a plan for improving your performance and participation in at least one targeted educational intervention. Finally, you will reassess your performance data to measure your progress and compare your results with other clinicians nationwide.
ACCF’s PI-CME initiatives streamline practice review by allowing physicians to use ACC-NCDR® Registry™ data that has already been collected. Brief and easy-to-complete self-assessment questionnaires along with patient surveys supplement your clinical practice data, giving you a complete picture of how your practice matches up to evidence-based care. Your choice of educational activities, quality improvement tools. and patient education resources will help you focus on specific performance measures to enhance your patients’ outcomes.
ACCF PI-CME initiatives provide 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians and 20 contact hours for nursing professionals. In addition, ABIM-certified physicians who successfully complete one of the initiatives are eligible for 20 points towards the Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance requirement of Maintenance of Certification (MOC).
ACCF currently offers two PI-CME initiatives:
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Keeping PACE: Patient-centered ACS Care Education
This innovative PI-CME initiative marries the power of the ACC-NCDR® ACTION Registry®-GWTG™ to an educational design that demonstrates practice improvement and optimal care of your patients with ACS, utilizing registry data reports to assess baseline practice patterns, and therefore, eliminating the time and need to obtain your own data through chart pulls.
ACCF currently offers one Performance Improvement Activity: